Dawn Brown is the Director of Cross-Cultural Innovation and Engagement for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Dawn leads a team focused on expanding mental health education and suicide prevention into underrepresented, underserved, and faith communities; and the implementation of JEDI-CLAS principles and practices across the agency and their 650 chapters. She is a mental health advocate, a DEI trainer and an international speaker on a mission to eradicate disparities and create mental health friendly, stigma free places of work, worship, and community. In addition to her role with NAMI, she is the mother of a daughter with a serious mental illness, the vice president of DBSA’s State Board of Directors, a member of Kaiser Permanente’s National Suicide Prevention Learning Collaborative, and member of the Suicide Prevention Task Force for the City of Milpitas.